#book

Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store? ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#reading #shopping #nature

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#book-of-the-fallen #deadhouse-gates #laws-of-nature #life #malazan

For biblical truth to be true, it must agree with all other biblical truth. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #philosophy #philosophy-of-religion #reid-ashbaucher #religion

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#secret

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#books #depression #insecurity #isolation #language

Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say anything they want to say, but for me, cover does matter. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cover #judge #matter #perception #truth

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#home #library #walking

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#kate

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. ↗

— Leonora Carrington

#military #novelists #writing #military

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day. ↗

— Voltaire

#reading #stupidity